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What's on Tap for D.C. Today?
Aired September 18, 2002 - 06:09 ET
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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Let's talk more about what's on tap in the nation's capital.
We are joined this morning by Washington deputy bureau chief, Steve Redisch.
Good morning -- Steve.
STEVE REDISCH, CNN WASHINGTON DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Catherine.
CALLAWAY: A busy morning for the president for the breaking meeting planned?
REDISCH: The big four from Capitol Hill -- Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, along with the House leadership, Dick Gephardt and Dennis Hastert -- going down and talking Iraq and talking probably about the shape of a resolution, as you heard both Senator McCain and Senator Daschle mention before.
The Senate had been fairly ambivalent, at least the Democrats of the Senate, about trying to get a resolution passed before the November elections. But as you heard Senator Daschle, he believes that a resolution will happen before the elections. It will be used as an election issue. It already is being used as an election issue in some races, and so we'll see what happens as far as where a resolution goes.
As for today, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld comes to Capitol Hill. He'll be the first Bush administration official to testify in open, you know, without the doors closed...
CALLAWAY: Right.
REDISCH: ... on Iraq before the House Armed Services Committee today.
CALLAWAY: Also, the 9/11 investigation of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
REDISCH: Today, they open their doors for the first time since, I believe, June, to determine what were the intelligence breakdowns before 9/11. Today, we're going to hear from some family members, first, of people who died in the attacks on September 11.
And later, we'll hear from the head of the staff of this committee, and she is expected to outline dozens of intelligence sightings in the months before September 11 that point directly to the threats that we made against the United States by al Qaeda. It should be very eye-opening and revealing information...
CALLAWAY: Yes.
REDISCH: ... stuff that was, before, classified.
CALLAWAY: I can't wait to hear that stuff. All right, thank you very much, Steve. Have a good day.
REDISCH: You too.
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Aired September 18, 2002 - 06:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Let's talk more about what's on tap in the nation's capital.
We are joined this morning by Washington deputy bureau chief, Steve Redisch.
Good morning -- Steve.
STEVE REDISCH, CNN WASHINGTON DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Catherine.
CALLAWAY: A busy morning for the president for the breaking meeting planned?
REDISCH: The big four from Capitol Hill -- Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, along with the House leadership, Dick Gephardt and Dennis Hastert -- going down and talking Iraq and talking probably about the shape of a resolution, as you heard both Senator McCain and Senator Daschle mention before.
The Senate had been fairly ambivalent, at least the Democrats of the Senate, about trying to get a resolution passed before the November elections. But as you heard Senator Daschle, he believes that a resolution will happen before the elections. It will be used as an election issue. It already is being used as an election issue in some races, and so we'll see what happens as far as where a resolution goes.
As for today, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld comes to Capitol Hill. He'll be the first Bush administration official to testify in open, you know, without the doors closed...
CALLAWAY: Right.
REDISCH: ... on Iraq before the House Armed Services Committee today.
CALLAWAY: Also, the 9/11 investigation of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
REDISCH: Today, they open their doors for the first time since, I believe, June, to determine what were the intelligence breakdowns before 9/11. Today, we're going to hear from some family members, first, of people who died in the attacks on September 11.
And later, we'll hear from the head of the staff of this committee, and she is expected to outline dozens of intelligence sightings in the months before September 11 that point directly to the threats that we made against the United States by al Qaeda. It should be very eye-opening and revealing information...
CALLAWAY: Yes.
REDISCH: ... stuff that was, before, classified.
CALLAWAY: I can't wait to hear that stuff. All right, thank you very much, Steve. Have a good day.
REDISCH: You too.
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